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 cjjeepercreeper
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Fri Sep 28, 2007 4:29 pm Post subject: Next Tues, Oct. 2, is a very important date |
 
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Finally the RIAA may get what is coming to them. The first case ever to actually go to a jury trial is set to start that day, Virgin v Thomas. The RIAA's evidence has always been known to be weak, they are just bullies, and their "experts" have proven to be questionable. This case will be heard in Minneapolis, MN. It will be covered daily on http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ .
Good articles on the aforementioned website about what has led to this, and an excellent article summarizing the situation is here: http://p2pnet.net/story/13465 .
I think the RIAA is about to finally get what they deserve. 
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Fri Sep 28, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE THOSE FUCKERS GO DOWN!!!!!
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BlackOmen77
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I think Death_Medic speaks for us all here.
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Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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hope they die.. but 1st, let's wait & see what's up..
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cjjeepercreeper
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Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Unbelievably the jury found for the RIAA. 
Ray Beckman, an attorney said it best ( http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/ ):
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My Comment on the Jury Verdict in Virgin v. Thomas
A verdict of $222,000.00, for infringement of 24 song files worth a total of $23.76?
In a case where there was zero evidence of the defendant having transferred any of those files?.
It is one of the most irrational things I have ever seen in my life in the law.
If the Judge doesn't set aside the verdict sua sponte, I expect there to be motion practice to set aside the verdict, based on its obvious unconstitutionality and numerous other reasons, and if that fails I expect there to be a successful appeal.
It is an outrage, and I hope it is a wakeup call to the world that we all need to start supporting the defendants in these cases, and the attorneys who are sacrificing so much to represent them. And the support cannot be with words, it must be with check books. And it cannot be next year, it must be now.
All the business people who make a living from the vibrancy, democracy, and freedom of expression which is the internet, need to get behind the RIAA's victims; if they do not, the world in which they hope to thrive and prosper will disappear rapidly.
The RIAA ghouls smelled blood in Duluth, and I guess they were right.
But it isn't over.
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 Wurst
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: |
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thats sounds shitty seems like every big company is going to change laws just to suppress the people... |
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Dami
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:54 am Post subject: |
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That's the trend, we're living in the glorious 21st Century. Hey I can tell ya, I also lived in the 20th Century *lol lol lol*
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misanthrone
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Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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all hail USA \m/ 
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 Waffen
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Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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yeah - WTF is wrong with the USA?
Someone please enlighten me - we never have this type of shit in Europe as far as Im aware.
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Wurst
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Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:44 am Post subject: |
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waffen the shit is here coming too... slowly creeping so you don't realize it...  |
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